With touchpad browser tab sometimes closes when selected

[tadeusz cantwell]

I am running 10.10 on a acer extensia laptop. With the touchpad I get some inconsistent behavior using browsers. Currently firefox beta and chrome. There are multiple tabs open, clicking on the tab will sometimes close it instead of showing that tab. At other times clicking on a link that should show the new page in the same tab, spawns a new tab to show the page. It can take two or three clicks for it to show the page in the original tab.

EDIT: Occasionally when I open a new tab a warning message appears to tell me that I'm about to open over 700 tabs. This behavior can happen with an RSS feed.

It seems to happen more often on the firefox beta.

Not sure what technical information to help the devs.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

(tadeusz, if you remember why you reported this bug as being a bug with Launchpad itself rather than with Firefox, please describe the steps you took in bug 88818. Thanks.)

[tadeusz cantwell (tadcan)]

Ah, I saw the report a bug and didn't realize it was for launchpad and not ubuntu.

[tadeusz cantwell (tadcan)]

This is an example of what happens. I selected an RSS feed in my browser and the following warning appeared. Would it be helpful if I tried to capture the desktop to show the spawning of tabs?

After looking around this sounds similar to my experience, may be a duplicate, but I'm not sure.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/677700

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Arthur Peale (arthurpeale)]

I am also running 10.10. This has been an ongoing, rather annoying issue. I thought that it was an issue with Firefox, so I upgraded to the latest version. The issue persists.

Luckily, the newer versions have an option to "reopen closed tabs".

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Tadeusz (and anyone else affected),

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu and Firefox since that time.

We'd like to close this bug report due to its age and long period of inactivity so please let us if you still see a problem which is related to the one that was reported.

If we do not hear from you this bug report will expire in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for firefox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]